From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:17:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yga7f0d8v9x.fsf@akutech.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: eqe6gkFor0sU2@mid.individual.net
* notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
| [...] If the variable dired-recursive-deletes is non-nil, then Dired
| can delete nonempty directories including all their contents. That can
| be somewhat risky."
>
| So, how do I set the above named variable or, better yet, how do I
| invoke it w/o changing my emacs config file?
M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET
But make sure you really really really want to delete non-empty
directories (especially $HOME :-) without confirmation.
HTH
R'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-15 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-01 22:10 Delete marked files from dired notbob
2017-06-01 22:24 ` John Mastro
2017-06-01 22:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-01 23:09 ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-01 23:12 ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-02 0:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02 4:55 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-02 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-02 16:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-06-02 21:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02 21:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02 1:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02 5:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-02 5:31 ` Marco Wahl
2017-06-02 15:40 ` notbob
2017-06-02 21:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-03 21:15 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-06-03 22:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-04 4:58 ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-15 1:17 ` notbob
2017-06-15 1:34 ` notbob
2017-06-15 9:17 ` Ralf Fassel [this message]
2017-06-16 15:44 ` notbob
2017-06-16 15:53 ` notbob
2017-06-16 20:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-19 9:21 ` Ralf Fassel
2017-06-19 13:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20 1:03 ` notbob
2017-06-20 4:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20 10:33 ` Ralf Fassel
2017-06-20 12:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-15 4:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-15 6:29 ` Emanuel Berg
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